J. W. Warner and Susan E. Clarke Warner moved to Miami in 1905. They and their son and daughter operated the Miami Floral Company from 1906 to 1972. Warner House, at 111 SW 5th Avenue, was built in 1912, sold to the Magic City Restoration Company in 1981, and in 1983 placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Correspondence, personal and business records, manuscripts, postcards, advertisements and other memorabilia from the J.W. Warner family, who were Miami's first florists, establishing the Miami Floral Company in 1906. Includes records for Warner House, their home and place of business; promotional material for the Magnetic Comb Company; a first-day cover commemorating the start of air mail service to Tallahassee; diaries of George H. Griffin ("Uncle George"), and an autobiographical narrative by Lena Clarke, Mrs. Warner's sister.